[Foundation-l] Personal Image Filter results announced

[David Gerard]

On 7 September 2011 15:55, Thomas Morton <morton.thomas at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Obviously given the complexity of the category tree system any such
> engineering wouldn't be infallible - but you could match it to most use
> cases. Ultimately it is just a collapsing tree problem, and they are ten a
> penny to a decent engineer :)


The category trees are pathological in every way. Unless you try to
regularise the category system for the purpose of making the filter
easier to implement, which I predict will lead to *considerable*
community resistance and obstruction.


- d.